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<blockquote data-quote="EatonEggbeater" data-source="post: 14002038" data-attributes="member: 8939"><p>From my days in school one statement comes to mind: "acquired characteristics are not passed on."</p><p></p><p>The example was that if you cut off a mouses tail for any number of generations, the mice will continue to be born with tails.</p><p></p><p>If there's an environmental advantage to not having a tail, the tail will probably go away on its own over multiple generations as more offspring having a shorter tail will survive.</p><p></p><p>If there was an environmental advantage to being a good guitar player, then this trait (or combination of them) would emerge over time, and code itself genetically for future generations.</p><p></p><p>Typically only mutations act within a generation, and if they don't kill the organism, they don't generally select to the benefit of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EatonEggbeater, post: 14002038, member: 8939"] From my days in school one statement comes to mind: "acquired characteristics are not passed on." The example was that if you cut off a mouses tail for any number of generations, the mice will continue to be born with tails. If there's an environmental advantage to not having a tail, the tail will probably go away on its own over multiple generations as more offspring having a shorter tail will survive. If there was an environmental advantage to being a good guitar player, then this trait (or combination of them) would emerge over time, and code itself genetically for future generations. Typically only mutations act within a generation, and if they don't kill the organism, they don't generally select to the benefit of it. [/QUOTE]
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